Preparation for destroying boll weevils



BENJAIVIIN B. GRAY,

03F 'WIL'LAGQGCHEE, G-EGPJGIEL.

PREJ'PABALEQN DESTRO'LYING BULL 'W'E-EVILS.

L43 43u ,lnecifcatlon of Letters Patent.

No Dravrin g.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, BENJAMIN B. GRAY, a citizen of the United States residing at Yl illaroochee, in the county of fit son and State of Georgia, have invented certein new and useful Improvements in the Freparation tor Destroying Boll weevils; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the'inventiom such will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Preparations for use in destroying boll weevils which infest cotton plants have been enerally used but without success since, while the looll weevils are killed, the plants are also injured by the preparations used.

I have experimented with a large number of preparations for killing boll weevils and have found the objection noted to he inherent in all of the preparations 1 am also aware that liquid preparations of kerosene and coal tar have been used for killing boll weevils, and am. converse.

Wit/11 the patents which have been granted for such preparations. However, such prenarations oi kerosene and coal here not been compounded in proportions that will kill the hell. wetwils but will not injure the plants.

By extensive experiment I have found the correct proportions which should he used,

Appldcetton filed May 27,

1920. Serial No. 384,743.

so as not to destroy the plents but to insure killing of the boll weevils.

The object, therefore, of my invention is to provide a liquid preparation which is adapted to be burned by any of the well known smoking devices in common use the smoke generated instantly killing the boll weevils and yet not injuring the plants in the slightest.

My preparation consists of the following ingredients in the proportions named:

Kerosene and coal tar in the proportions of one gallon of kerosene to one pint of coal tar. These ingredients are thoroughly mixed and are converted into a smoke by the use of any of the well known smoking; devices in common use torthis purpose, and the smoke directed to the plants instantly ling the weevils, but not in any manne hiring the plants.

Vlhet I claim to be new is:

A composition for killing; boll weevils consisting in the smoke resultant from the is:- nition of a liquid composed of kerosene and coal tar substantially in the proportion oi eight parts to one respectively.

in testimony whereof I hereunto my signature.

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